{"id":169,"date":"2020-12-06T23:12:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T23:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/?p=169"},"modified":"2020-12-06T23:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T23:26:18","slug":"micropond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/uncategorized\/micropond\/","title":{"rendered":"Micropond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The most pleasant surprise so far in the garden has been the micropond. Hand-dug 4&#8217;x7&#8242;, probably a foot and a half deep at the deepest. The stones to stabilize its walls came from the neighbor&#8217;s creek who expressly forbade me to spend money on stones. He calls this a nanopond, at best a puddle. Standard procedure is to line the pond with an impermeable liner so it holds water. Under the liner goes a felt-like sheet to protect the liner from snags and tears. Looked like this puddle might be a couple of hundred dollars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I came back after a couple of rainy weeks, it was holding a respectable amount of water. I was elated. My neighbor was like yeah we got <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hardpan\">hardpan<\/a> here. Overnight frost made a thin layer of ice on it. I saw a tiny, possibly a millimeter or two long, black insect scribbling across the surface. I wondered if it was in fact swimming under the ice. I put a finger in its path to test my hypothesis. The ice cracked; the insect sank all eighteen inches to the bottom of the micropond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_7689-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_7689-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_7689-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_7689.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most pleasant surprise so far in the garden has been the micropond. Hand-dug 4&#8217;x7&#8242;, probably a foot and a half deep at the deepest. The stones to stabilize its walls came from the neighbor&#8217;s creek who expressly forbade me to spend money on stones. He calls this a nanopond, at best a puddle. Standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shayok.com\/foodloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}